Proverbs 4
1 Hear, [my] sons, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding:
to hear: hear son: descendant/people discipline: instruction father and to listen to/for to know understanding
2 For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my law.
for teaching pleasant to give: give to/for you instruction my not to leave: neglect
3 For I was a son unto my father, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
for son: child to be to/for father my tender and only to/for face mother my
4 And he taught me, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words; keep my commandments, and live:
and to show me and to say to/for me to grasp word my heart your to keep: obey commandment my and to live
5 Get wisdom, get understanding; forget [it] not, neither decline from the words of my mouth:
to buy wisdom to buy understanding not to forget and not to stretch from word lip my
6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee; love her, and she shall keep thee.
not to leave: forsake her and to keep: obey you to love: lover her and to watch you
7 Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get wisdom: yea, with all thou hast gotten get understanding.
first: beginning wisdom to buy wisdom and in/on/with all acquisition your to buy understanding
8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
to build her and to exalt you to honor: honour you for to embrace her
9 She shall give to thine head a chaplet of grace: a crown of beauty shall she deliver to thee.
to give: put to/for head your wreath favor crown beauty to deliver you
10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
to hear: hear son: child my and to take: recieve word my and to multiply to/for you year life
11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in paths of uprightness.
in/on/with way: conduct wisdom to show you to tread you in/on/with track uprightness
12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and if thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
in/on/with to go: walk you not be distressed step your and if to run: run not to stumble
13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
to strengthen: hold in/on/with discipline: instruction not to slacken to watch her for he/she/it life your
14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and walk not in the way of evil men.
in/on/with way wicked not to come (in): come and not to bless in/on/with way: conduct bad: evil
15 Avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass on.
to neglect him not to pass in/on/with him to turn aside from upon him and to pass
16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
for not to sleep if: until not be evil and to plunder sleep their if: until not (to stumble *QK)
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
for to feed on food: bread wickedness and wine violence to drink
18 But the path of the righteous is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
and way righteous like/as light brightness to go: continue and to light till to establish: prepare [the] day
19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
way: conduct wicked like/as darkness not to know in/on/with what? to stumble
20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
son: child my to/for word my to listen [emph?] to/for word my to stretch ear your
21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
not be devious from eye: seeing your to keep: obey them in/on/with midst heart your
22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
for life they(masc.) to/for to find them and to/for all flesh his healing
23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
from all custody to watch heart your for from him outgoing life
24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
to turn aside: remove from you crookedness lip: word and perversity lip: words to remove from you
25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
eye your to/for before to look and eyelid your to smooth before you
26 Make level the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
to envy track foot your and all way: conduct your to establish: establish
27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
not to stretch right and left to turn aside: depart foot your from bad: evil
